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argv_minus_one ,

Not a fan of slicing up the title bar like that, to be honest. Yeah, it saves some space, but I’m on a desktop with plenty of screen space, so that really isn’t a priority, and being able to easily move windows around is a priority.

Also, what the hell is wrong with old-fashioned menus? This isn’t a phone. GNOME doesn’t even run on phones.

argv_minus_one ,

Since the kebab menu is inside the location/search box, I’m guessing it contains search-related options.

argv_minus_one ,

That’s the neat thing. It’s so customizable, you can turn it into another desktop environment.

argv_minus_one ,

In America, the disobedient prole gets tossed in the slammer and forced to do hard labor.

argv_minus_one ,

This generation’s leaded gasoline, then. Wonderful.

argv_minus_one ,

It’s irreplaceable in a lot of applications. There’s a reason we’re using so much of it. Even in applications where it can be replaced, doing so would result in burning more fuel to transport the other, heavier material, accelerating global warming. Lose-lose.

argv_minus_one ,

Hold up. That entire image is 8-bit. It’s a JPEG image. JPEG can’t encode more than 8 bits per channel. Nor can most displays, including mine, display more than 8 bits per channel. And yet the left half of your image exhibits far worse banding than the right half.

The left half looks more like 5 bits per channel rather than 8. You’d see that kind of banding in gradients back in the days of Windows 3.1, when 16-bit color was common. (16-bit color uses 5 bits each for red and blue, and 6 bits for green.)

argv_minus_one ,

[meme with the sweating guy in front of two buttons]

argv_minus_one ,

And many cities had mayors pushing for a return to office because the downtowns were threatened.

…with affordable housing. The horror!

argv_minus_one ,

That would require me to have lots of money to invest.

argv_minus_one ,

Because web development sucks, web developers are always trying to reinvent web development such that it doesn’t suck, and they keep failing.

They keep failing because it’s impossible, and it’s impossible because the requirements are directly contradictory.

  • Web application code must be simple and understandable (which requires the application to use a minimum of libraries and frameworks), but web applications must look and feel modern and fancy (which requires big, complicated frameworks).
  • Web development must be easy (which requires the project to be written in JavaScript or something similarly simple), but web applications must have sophisticated functionality and not crash (which requires the project to be written in TypeScript, Rust, or something similarly non-simple).
  • Web development must be easy (which requires the entire project to be written in a single language), but web applications must work to at least a basic degree with scripting disabled (which requires the project to contain non-trivial amounts of HTML and CSS in addition to JavaScript/TypeScript/Rust/etc).
  • Web applications must be fast and not crash (which requires a compilation step with type checking), but it must be possible to iterate very quickly (which requires there to not be a compilation step).
  • And so on.

And they keep failing because, quite frankly, they don’t know how to succeed. Most web developers are not grizzled 50-year-olds with decades of experience and a solid understanding of things like type systems and build automation, and most grizzled 50-year-olds with decades of experience and a solid understanding of things like type systems and build automation want nothing to do with web development. Microsoft somehow managed to scrape together enough exceptional individuals to create TypeScript, but they seem to have exhausted the supply of such individuals.

Most web developers don’t even seem to fully appreciate what TypeScript does and why it’s important, let alone have the skill to write similarly sophisticated tools themselves. Consider, for example, Vite not running TypeScript type checking with every build. Vite’s developers cite compilation speed as their motivation for cutting this corner. These people clearly do not understand the importance of correctness checking.

Another example: as far as I can tell, no web application build tools track dependencies between source files for incremental compilation, nor am I aware of any standard format for compilers (TypeScript, Sass, Babel, etc) to communicate that information to the build tools invoking them (Webpack, Vite, Grunt, etc).

Every once in a while there’s a ray of hope, like TypeScript, but that’s all it is: hope. The web developer experience has never been anywhere close to the caliber of developer experience you’ll get with a language like Rust, and sadly I don’t foresee that changing any time soon.

And no, htmx is not the answer to our prayers. It seeks to fix HTML, and HTML is not what’s fundamentally broken.

argv_minus_one ,

Humans: beating the laws of physics into submission since 2061.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

The warp core isn’t the only source of power on the whole ship; it’s just the biggest and electroplasmiest. Starships also have fusion power plants. Y’know, those old-fashioned atom-smashing machines? They’re crude, like the power-plant equivalent of two cavemen swinging wooden clubs at each other, but they power the impulse drives, and nobody’s going to complain about at least being able to go somewhere when the anomaly of the week turns the warp core into a flower pot or something.

For some reason, nothing bad ever seems to happen to the fusion reactors. I guess it’s because the reaction fizzling out and shutting down quietly isn’t very dramatic. Fusion reactors aren’t all explodey like antimatter is.

argv_minus_one ,

Of course it did. It’s an antimatter reactor. It goes boom like a giant photon torpedo. Trouble is, warp cores don’t exactly grow on trees, neither does the antimatter fuel, and you have to somehow get clear of the huge explosion without a working warp drive.

argv_minus_one ,

One wonders how exactly a shield generator, generally portrayed as one of the most power-intensive components of a starship after the warp drive, still has enough power to function with only the fusion reactors and no warp core.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

In most any Star Trek episode where the Prime Directive is relevant, the humans have encountered primitive (pre-warp) aliens. Usually, some disastrous problem has befallen the aliens that the humans’ technology can easily solve, and the humans must struggle to decide whether to help and bear the consequences (both legal and practical) of intervening, or leave the aliens to their fate as the Directive demands.

argv_minus_one ,

The patient’s skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again.

argv_minus_one ,

Pornography starring Scout’s mother.

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argv_minus_one ,

Pedophiles ruin everything.

argv_minus_one ,

Fascist shutdown of public discourse, step by step:

  1. Find out where public discourse is.
  2. Post child porn on an obscure corner of it.
  3. Take screenshots of the posted porn.
  4. Send law enforcement to seize all the things.
argv_minus_one ,

I’m talking about when the government wants an excuse for shutting down public discourse. Obviously it isn’t going to prosecute itself.

argv_minus_one ,

afraid the gays are going to out-breed you (not even kidding, they really “think” that)

Do, uh, do they understand how reproduction works, or…?

afraid what you want won’t be what everyone does, afraid other people are smarter or more capable

Well, yeah, that’s almost certainly true.

afraid that when you die you won’t get magicked somewhere to live forever.

Atheists would say that’s true too.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

If there’s one great way to turn people either hard left or hard right, that would be it. Impoverish them. Take away from them what their own parents took for granted.

argv_minus_one ,

That doesn’t scare me, because I know full well that neuroscience is nowhere near advanced enough to read minds.

When that day comes, however…

argv_minus_one ,

My head isn’t inside an fMRI machine, nor is my phone connected to one, so they still can’t read my mind with my phone.

Fear not though:

Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”

they’re taking it seriously

Yeah, that’s not even remotely reassuring. The instant it becomes feasible to read minds on a large scale, it will be immediately put to use for government surveillance and commercial exploitation. No one will give a single [expletive] about the objections of some college students. My only hope is to be dead before then.

argv_minus_one ,

So basically, the US government doesn’t actually mind all the creepy data harvesting; it just minds not getting a spot at the trough. Typical.

argv_minus_one ,

Der Spiegel is running Russian propaganda now? Shameful.

Also shameful is that privacy popup with no opt-out option. Isn’t that non-compliant?

argv_minus_one ,

None. The opposition to systemd is highly irrational.

argv_minus_one ,

If a collection of programs that each do a specific thing runs counter to the Unix philosophy, then Unix runs counter to the Unix philosophy.

argv_minus_one ,

Use systemctl --failed to see which services didn’t come up, systemctl status SERVICENAMEHERE to see some status info about a service, and journalctl -b -u SERVICENAMEHERE to see all log messages generated by a service since last reboot.

argv_minus_one , (edited )

The same is true of Linux itself.

Anyway, I’m not sure I see how a non-gigantic, slow-moving, pretty-much-finished open-source project like systemd can become broken or compromised in a way that forking it cannot solve. This isn’t Chromium we’re talking about, where it takes an army of world-class developers just to keep it from falling so far behind as to be basically unusable. If systemd were to stop being developed in any way other than security and critical bug fixes, it would still remain useful for many years.

argv_minus_one ,

Hostage-taking cowards.

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argv_minus_one ,

Criminals ruin everything.

argv_minus_one ,

None, because their boards would sue my pants off for what I’d do with them.

A better question would be what I’d do with controlling ownership of three companies.

argv_minus_one ,

Option 2. If innocent people die, it won’t be by my hand.

argv_minus_one ,

Jailing the protesters, not the terrorists, no?

argv_minus_one ,

But if it’s outlawing book burning in general, that’s quite another story.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” The intended target of this law is crystal clear.

argv_minus_one ,

Then I envy you, that your legislators are competent and honest enough to do so.

argv_minus_one ,

Nothing of note, really. The openness of the whole system meant that I could learn whatever I needed to know as the need arose.

I started when I was a kid, though. I had plenty of time to explore and discover. It’d be harder as an adult in a hurry.

argv_minus_one ,

It’s pretty important on Windows too, though. Always “eject” or “safely remove hardware” before unplugging!

argv_minus_one ,

I wouldn’t use ZFS. Too risky. If a new kernel comes along and ZFS fails to build or something, my system will be unbootable.

Btrfs scratches my copy-on-write/checksum/integrated RAID itch well enough anyway.

argv_minus_one ,

386BSD was a thing back then too, but there was the AT&T lawsuit that scared everyone away. That gave Linux an opportunity.

argv_minus_one ,

NVIDIA’s contempt for the Linux community is legendary. Definitely not a skill issue.

argv_minus_one ,

Read/write operations can happen in the background at any moment as long as the drive is mounted, so that’s not terribly comforting.

Anyway, Windows has always avoided deferring writes on removable media, for as long as it’s been capable of deferring writes at all. That’s not new in Windows 10.

Linux has a mount option, sync, to do the same thing. Dunno if any desktop environments actually use it, but they could. Besides being slower, though, it has the downside of causing more write operations (since they can’t be batched together into fewer, larger writes), so flash drives will wear out faster. I imagine Windows’ behavior has the same problem, although with Windows users accustomed to pulling out their drives without unmounting, I suppose that’s the lesser of two evils.

argv_minus_one ,

the cattle now tell themselves they don’t want to be free because their rancher told them about fictional wolves that conveniently exist everywhere past the imaginary line that serves as a fence.

The Chinese who took over Hong Kong don’t seem very fictional.

argv_minus_one ,

I’m typing this on a ten year MacBook Pro

Lucky you, I guess, because I sure haven’t had such good fortune.

that is running a currently supported version of MacOS

How is that possible? The almost-dead MacBook I mentioned is younger than yours and is stuck on Monterey.

and runs as fast as the day I bought it.

Probably. I didn’t say anything about how fast they are, because all common platforms in use today still run reasonably well on decade-old hardware.

If it had 10ish GB of RAM, at least. Browsers eat RAM like popcorn.

I have a pile of Dell and Lenovo Windows laptops of similar age that can still run but are basically doorstops or suitable for beater Linux or BSD machines, definitely not daily drivers.

I’m guessing you didn’t pay $2500 for them, though. That’s down to specs, not manufacturer. Apple hardware is almost invariably high-spec and therefore quite fast, but Apple thankfully doesn’t have a monopoly on fast computers.

argv_minus_one ,

ABP is, ironically, adware, and probably also malware. You’d be better off with the stock browser.

argv_minus_one ,

My butt started hurting within seconds of contact with my old childhood bike’s seat.

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